Week 03

 

• Screenshots of the software you used for sketching your final project.
• Small comment about the software you used (at least two dierent software options), how it works, do you like it or not? Does it work for your needs?
• Describe part of the process of sketching with the software options, what tools from the software you used? (add screenshots of this process).
• Include all the les you created for download.

• For remove the colors I used the Desaturate tool in colors menu
• When the window pops up you can choose a profile or just make click in the OK buttom

• After that, used the level tool to remove the noise in the picture.

 

• When I feel confortable with the results just exported the image in PNG format to continue later with Inkscape.

Working with Inkscape!

 

Inkscape its a great vector graphics tool, I have long time working with it, you can draw and use the bunch of plugins that have by default or install newones to improve its performance.

 

for the practice a just insert the image that previously clean in gimp and coverted to vectors doing:

 

• Selected the image and go to Path menu.
• select the trace bitmap option from the dropdown menu.
• when you see the new window you can continue to tray any of the options and threshold to give the desire results.
• in my case I used the Brightness cutoff with 0.030 that works perfectly for my case.
• you can check the live preview box and that will give you a chance to see how your vectors will looks like.
• when you are ready just click in the OK bottom and inkscape will vectorize your image.
• at this point you can color or modify your vectors.

 

 

 

 

 

Vectorizing!

 

Showing how to draw with inkscape I prepare some basic shapes like ellipses polygons and rectangles.

 

• I duplicated ellipses and rectangles and use the panel called transform to rotate to 60° and mirroring to accommodate in place every object.

 

• later used the tools in path like merge the objects, used the block in the menu union, difference and exclusion.

Vectorizing!

 

There are a lot of tools in inkscape to show that are very useful to create professional results even to print or to use with the prototyping equipment.

 

I really enjoyed to use this software in windows or Ubuntu based Gnu/Linux distros.

 

Vectorizing!

 

As a plus I can point that can use CorelDraw to vectorize and prepare documents to cut with laser and CNC  router machines.

FreeCAD

 

I can tell that I´m really new with the parametric design but I tried to use this nice program, I imported the vectorized image and use some tools to weld the curves and make a 3D with that.

 

Used the Sketch desig part workbench

 

I discovered that you have to dedicate some time to understand how the the tools works because its a bit different than the commercial software dedicated to this king of design, even its different I will try to move to work more with it.